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Sunday, June 26, 2011

June 26 in San Antonio history...

1933
The 1,500 city employees who have been living on credit or savings for a month because of an empty city treasury, were told about $90,000 would distributed by July 1.

1963
Postmaster Dan Quill said the "master" number of the new ZIP code designations for San Antonio is 782.

1991
Southwestern Bell officials announced that South Texas would soon have two area codes. San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley would remain 512 and Austin, Corpus Christi and Kingsville would receive a new but as yet undetermined designation. The change is slated to take place in late 1992 or early 1993.[Despite what the article stated, San Antonio's area code changed to 210 on Nov. 1, 1992]